The number of nodes and channels on the Bitcoin Lightning Network (LN) rose over 24 hours by 23.68% and 22.24%, respectively. The uptick followed Twitter’s addition of the ability to accept cryptocurrency donations.
Lightning Network has become a vehicle for social-media users to send donations in digital assets.
Jack Mallers, CEO of Strike, a Lightning Network-based payments service, demonstrated sending $10 over Twitter using the integrated API.
“What the Internet did for communication, Bitcoin and the Lightning Network are doing for money,” he wrote.
I just published Announcing the Strike API
Today, @Twitter enables free, instant, global payments for their users with their integration of the Strike API.
What the internet did for communication, #Bitcoin + the Lightning Network is doing for money.https://t.co/jHkY6knXkP pic.twitter.com/FXujknG7sM
— Jack Mallers (@jackmallers) September 23, 2021
Since the start of the year, the Lightning Network’s micropayments capacity has grown by more than 170%, from 1,058 BTC to 2,866 BTC. The total number of nodes reached 27,044, and the number of channels 73,400.
Earlier this year, LN integrated Bitcoin exchange OKEx and P2P platform Paxful.
Billionaire and well-known Bitcoin advocate Salinas Pliego also announced support for second-layer solutions in his electronics retail network in Latin America.